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what are some other good examples of permissionless user directed protocols? 🤔
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big tone
@bigtone.eth·13:40 22/04/2025
what if “RSS is All You Need”?
Dave Winer:
“This is absolutely the simplest and most web-like way to do federation. And you don't need any new formats or protocols. It's all RSS on both sides. We totally know how to do RSS. It's ready to go. What got me thinking about this a few years ago was Substack. I wanted to publish a nightly email newsletter from what I had posted that day on my blog, but I didn't have the patience to copy and paste and then reformat the text, by hand, when I already have that automated. They wanted to turn me into a computer. I tried that with Medium for a couple of years and it was awful. No thanks. What I needed them to have support Inbound RSS.”
http://scripting.com/2025/04/14/121946.html
Dave Winer:
“This is absolutely the simplest and most web-like way to do federation. And you don't need any new formats or protocols. It's all RSS on both sides. We totally know how to do RSS. It's ready to go. What got me thinking about this a few years ago was Substack. I wanted to publish a nightly email newsletter from what I had posted that day on my blog, but I didn't have the patience to copy and paste and then reformat the text, by hand, when I already have that automated. They wanted to turn me into a computer. I tried that with Medium for a couple of years and it was awful. No thanks. What I needed them to have support Inbound RSS.”
http://scripting.com/2025/04/14/121946.html
This Veritasium episode goes a great deal into protocol security.
The world still operates mainly on legacy telco networks via the 2G and 3G standards. It costs about 10,000 USD to infiltrate, locate and hijack any mobile phone connection world wide.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wVyu7NB7W6Y
The world still operates mainly on legacy telco networks via the 2G and 3G standards. It costs about 10,000 USD to infiltrate, locate and hijack any mobile phone connection world wide.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wVyu7NB7W6Y
Finally, my collection of 3 NFTs is out! 🎉✨ I’d really appreciate your support 💖🙏
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Great OG thesis on protocols
- Twitter could/should have been ethereum
- USV 1st fund struggled to raise
- Tumblr --> 20m users w 2 people/founders
* fun fact, Christina Cacioppo's (founded Vanta) 1st job out of school was at usv, hired from a blog of course https://youtu.be/RdBsF_JTbLM?si=kQFIm-tj-y-Pm-l4
- Twitter could/should have been ethereum
- USV 1st fund struggled to raise
- Tumblr --> 20m users w 2 people/founders
* fun fact, Christina Cacioppo's (founded Vanta) 1st job out of school was at usv, hired from a blog of course https://youtu.be/RdBsF_JTbLM?si=kQFIm-tj-y-Pm-l4
"A protocol is a stratum of codified behavior that allows for the construction or emergence of complex coordinated behaviors at adjacent loci."
Is this working definition of "protocol" offered in The Unreasonable Sufficiency people's preferred definition?
https://venkatesh-rao.gitbook.io/summer-of-protocols
Is this working definition of "protocol" offered in The Unreasonable Sufficiency people's preferred definition?
https://venkatesh-rao.gitbook.io/summer-of-protocols
"We can create rules that allow for a certain behaviour to emerge, and we can create rules that force a certain behaviour to vanish."
Wrote another banger in the latest Powerlaw Memo.
A system is not a system if it has only "for" rules, because then it is a free for all. And a system is not a system if it has only "against" rules, because then it is just a prison.
Wrote another banger in the latest Powerlaw Memo.
A system is not a system if it has only "for" rules, because then it is a free for all. And a system is not a system if it has only "against" rules, because then it is just a prison.
notes on protocols, language and cryptography —
"People who work in cryptography often talk about trustless protocols, but what they mean is: cryptography scales trust. At the most abstract level, cryptography allows us to replace other forms of trust with trust in math. Or put another way, the trust isn’t eliminated. It just moves to a different part of the system, a part which can be scaled."
https://newsletter.squishy.computer/p/cryptography-scales-trust
"People who work in cryptography often talk about trustless protocols, but what they mean is: cryptography scales trust. At the most abstract level, cryptography allows us to replace other forms of trust with trust in math. Or put another way, the trust isn’t eliminated. It just moves to a different part of the system, a part which can be scaled."
https://newsletter.squishy.computer/p/cryptography-scales-trust
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polymutex
@polymutex.eth·04:59 25/02/2025
Browsing the open web in 2025 be like
https://warpcast.com/darrylyeo/0x4239f45d
https://warpcast.com/polymutex.eth/0xbca3ded0
https://warpcast.com/darrylyeo/0x4239f45d
https://warpcast.com/polymutex.eth/0xbca3ded0
I wrote about some fundamentals of game design.
When you try to reconcile game state, the question always is what is the source of truth, and who should be allowed to control it?
Game developers and protocol enjoyers unite!
When you try to reconcile game state, the question always is what is the source of truth, and who should be allowed to control it?
Game developers and protocol enjoyers unite!
TIL - QR code is a Japanese invention
Great video about QR code protocol and its history showing more than 150 years of protocol evolution starting with Morse Code
https://youtu.be/w5ebcowAJD8
Great video about QR code protocol and its history showing more than 150 years of protocol evolution starting with Morse Code
https://youtu.be/w5ebcowAJD8
@vgr is there a better protocol than those combination lockers that let anyone set their own code if they're open?
@vgr is there a pdf of all the protocols essays? I've been playing with https://notebooklm.google/ and it's quite handy to have a canonical set of resources to insert a specific block of knowledge. I have a notebook I want to mix-in all the protocol ideas.
Century-Scale Storage — memory preservation techniques from ancient stone carvings to decentralized network protocols https://lil.law.harvard.edu/century-scale-storage
published V2 of the AR.IO Network & Token white paper - would appreciate any feedback from you gigabrains
https://whitepaper.ar.io
https://whitepaper.ar.io
i dont know why im so blown away with the comments being integrated into the bluesky protocol but this is cool
https://emilyliu.me/blog/open-network
https://emilyliu.me/blog/open-network
Talking about protocols sometimes is divorced from the token design. I've seen protocol conversations just about how the infra works. That seems to be missing the point.
Need someone that understands git/citc to pressure test me
